their authors, but should have a motto, and each essay, should be accompanied by a sealed envelope bearing the motto on the outside and containing the full name and address of the author or authors inside. 10. All essays and plans must be sent, postage paid, on or before the 15th of April, 1902, to one of the secretaries of the committee: Dr. P. Horton-Smith, 15 Upper Brook street, W. London, or Dr. J. Broadbent, 35 Seymour street, W. London. II. Three money prizes of £500, £200, and £100, respectively, will be awarded in order of merit, on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee, for the three best essays, provided they come up to the requisite standard of excellence. Brevity will be an important consideration, and a summary of the main features of the scheme should be appended to the paper. Unsuccessful papers will be returned to the authors.

BOOK REVIEWS.

THE FOUR EPOCHS OF WOMAN'S LIFE. A Study in Hygiene. BY ANNA M. GALBRAITH, M. D., author of “Hygiene and Physical Culture for Women"; Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, etc. With an introductory note by John H. Musser, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. 12mo. volume of 200 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1901. Cloth, $1.25, net.

A book well calculated to awaken women to a sense of the penalties they have paid for indulged ignorance of those laws of nature which govern their physical being, and to make them feel the necessity for instruction in the fundamental principles which underlie the epochs of their lives.

This is pre-eminently the day of preventive medicine—a branch of medicine which seeks the co-operation of all persons concerned for their own health, or for the public health, and of none more than women; who, unfortunately for their own well-being, have hitherto held themselves altogether too much aloof from an effort to acquire knowledge of their own physical organization and functions absolutely essential for the maintenance of health. To overcome the repugnance of women in this respect is the purpose of the

book before us. It is an instructive work of practical utility to every woman who will read it. It gives, in a modest, pleasing, and conclusive manner, those truths of which every woman should have a thorough knowledge. Written as it is for the laity, the subject is discussed in clear language, divested of unnecessary technicalities, easily grasped by those most unfamiliar with medical subjects. Moreover, a valuable and commendable feature of this handy volume of instructive information is a comprehensive glossary of those unavoidable medical terms necessary to a thorough understanding of the subject under discussion. It is worthy of and should have the thoughtful consideration of every woman who would be well informed on the conditions of her destiny.

MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING AND SANITATION.-By M. N. BAKER, Ph.B., C. E., Associate Editor of "Engineering News." Pp. 325. Price, $1.25. New York: The Macmillan Co.

12mo.

A concise review of municipal engineering and sanitation, with deductions and application of principles, of practical utility in the whole field of municipal sanitation. "The City and Its Needs" are considered with reference to the ways and means of communication-streets and street plans, grades, pavements, street railways; municipal supplies; pure water and water-works; milk, slaughter houses, storage and markets; public halls, schoolhouses and libraries; municipal lighting, gas and electric; removal and proper disposal of city wastes; municipal dwellings and lodging houses; municipal parks, playgrounds and gymnasiums; cemeteries and crematories; protection of life, health and property; fire protection, plumbing and building regulations; lavatories and comfort stations-all concisely reviewed from a sanitary view point, and replete with suggestive practical knowledge.

TRICHINOSIS IN GERMANY.-Bulletin No. 30, U. S. Department, Bureau of Animal Industry. D. E. SALMON, D. V. M., Chief.

A pamphlet of two hundred pages in four parts: I, "General Remarks on Trichinosis in Germany," by Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph.D.; II, “Statistical Review of Trichinosis in Germany During the Eighteen Years, 1881-1898," Ibid. III, "European Cases of Trichinosis of Alleged American Origin," Ibid. IV, "Bibliography of Trichinosis in Germany," by Albert Hassall, M. R. C. S. A particularly instructive report with reference to the inspection of pork, as shown by the health statistics of Germany during the period stated, and the fallacy of the attributed outbreaks of trichi

nosis in Germany during that interval to American pork. The historical account of the disease and summary since its nature was first discovered, from German sources, render it doubtful whether that country ever has been entirely free from it. Yet, ignorant of, or purblind to what now appears to have been in

contestable evidence of its existence and home source of dissemination, in apparent response to a vigorous attack of the German press on American pork, in March, 1883, all American pork was excluded from that country by royal decree. Tabulated statistics of cases and deaths are given from 1860 to 1898, and a classification of the cases and deaths arranged according to the source of infection in the German Empire, 1881 to 1898, inclusive, and the geographic distribution of the outbreaks, with such particularity as to show that the prevalence of the disease there was wholly independent of any foreign source whatever.

"NIL DESPERANDUM" (the writer's motto, adopted in youth), published by "The American Humane Education Society," Boston. Autobiographical Sketches and Personal Recollections. By GEO. T. ANGELL, President of the American Humane Education Society, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Parent American Band of Mercy, 19 Milk street, Boston. Pp. 180. Price at the Society's office, six cents. When sent by mail, ten cents.

An interesting brochure of the origin and progress of the society he represents, with a portrait and life sketch. He began his livelihood as a school-teacher, studied and became a lawyer. Among the first of his professional acts is an account of how he turned a malpractice suit against a young physician to his-the physician's-advantage, besides the verdict in his client's favor; out of consideration of and to ward off the common effect of a suit for malpractice against a young physician, though acquitted. But it seems that, from childhood, he had cherished a fondness for animals to such a degree as to well nigh absorb his attention; insomuch that in 1864, when he was but forty-one years old, he made his will, leaving a legacy to be used, after his death, in circulating in schools, Sunday-schools and elsewhere information calculated to prevent cruelty to animals. Four years thereafter, March 23, 1868, he obtained the act of incorporation of "The Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals," with which he has been identified ever since. He traveled abroad during the early years of its existence, enlisted much interest and substantial aid in its purpose, established branch societies abroad as well as at

home, and, by means of “Our Dumb Animals," a paper which he established for free circulation, in the promotion of the objects of the Society, it soon obtained an extensive and just reputation for good works, and the liberal support of humanitarians everywhere. And this reputation the society, as well as its founder, has maintained until during recent years-since "Our Dumb Animals" has been merged into "The Animals' Defender" and become a purblind advocate of inhumanity to man by its misrepresentation of experimental physiology, vaccination, production and use of antitoxin ; efforts, indeed, to contravene the means of preventing devastating diseases. Away with such animal defenders. They are the defenders of disease germs—the most virulent and the most destructive enemies of mankind. And even if it were true, which it is not, that by vivisection and other uses some of the most insignificant animals are sacrificed without the use of anæsthetics, what standard of intelligence and humanity can be awarded to the champions and defenders of the most deadly enemies of the human race?

Verily, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, under recent auspices, is fast losing, and deserves to lose, the respect and sympathy of all intelligent people. Hence the esteem of its venerable founder, so worthily set forth in this brochure under consideration, must be entertained, as it deserves to be, wholly apart from the society as now represented by "The Animals' Defender."

AN ATLAS OF CLINICAL MEDICINE, SURGERY AND PATHOLOGY. -Jonathan Hutchinson, F. R. S., General Secretary of the New Sydenham Society, has requested Messrs. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., of Philadelphia, the American agents of the society, to announce the publication of "An Atlas of Clinical Medicine, Surgery and Pathology," selected and arranged with the design to afford, in as complete a manner as possible, aids to diagnosis in all departments of practice. It is proposed to complete the work in five years, in fasciculi form, eight to ten plates issued every three months in connection with the regular publications of the society. The New Sydenham Society was established in 1858, with the object of publishing essays, monographs and translations of works. which could not be otherwise issued. The list of publications numbers upward of 170 volumes of the greatest scientific value.! An effort is now being made to increase the membership, in order extend its work.

PAMPHLETS, REPRINTS, REPORTS, ETC., RECEIVED.

Affections of the Eye and Its Appendages in Bright's Disease. William Cheatham, M. D., Louisville, Ky.

Diseases of the Blood in Their Relation to Surgery, and Their Treatment. Geo. G. Van Schaick, M. D., New York.

Increasing the Therapeutic Value of Cod Liver Oil by the Addition of Free Iodine and Free Phosphorus. Louis J. Lauterbach, A. M., M. D., Ph.D., Philadelphia.

Hygiene in Therapeutics. Edwin W. Pyle, M. D., Jersey City, N. J.

Cystitis. Henry H. Morton, M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Tuberculosis of the Testicle, Seminal Vesicles and Prostate.

Ibid.

Sanatorium Treatment of Tuberculosis and its Relation to Climate. S. Edwin Solly, M. D., Colorado Springs, Col.

Syphilis as a Non-Venereal Disease, with a Plea for the Legal Control of Syphilis. L. Duncan Bulkley, A. M., M. D., New York. Specific Treatment of Acute Dysentery. Wm. J. Cruikshank, M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y.

Systemic Factors in Catarrhal Deafness. Sargent F. Snow, M. D., Syracuse, N. Y.

German Text-books Half a Century Ago; History and Reminiscences. A. Jacobi, M. D., New York.

Surgical Treatment of Palatal Defects. Truman W. Brophy, M. D., D. D. S., LL. D., Chicago, Ill.

Papilloma of the Larynx. Francis J. Quinlan, M. D., New York.

Tenia, Ascaris Lumbricoides and Oxyuris Vermicularis, and Their Treatment. Samuel E. Earp, M. S., M. D., Indianapolis, Ind.

An Investigation of a Pathogenic Microbe (B. typhi muriumDunyz), Applied to the Destruction of Rats. M. J. Rosenau, P. A. Surgeon, U. S. Marine Hospital Service, Washington, D. C.

New Canteen Booklet. Jas. B. Dunn, D. D., New York.

Arterio-sclerosis; The Greatest Foe of the Life Insurance Companies. Talbot Jones, M. D., St. Paul, Minn.

Immunity and Protective Inoculation. Henry Winston Harper, M. D., F. C. S., Austin, Texas.